There’s different types of crying. Some are a relief and a let-go and bring a sense of healing. Others are more desperate and hopeless. There is a wound that comes up in one area of my life that sees me in this place at times. Sometimes I get fired up and passionate, sometimes I am accepting and soulful, sometimes open and optimistic, but the tricky one is the collapse response. The slow caving in. I watched this as it came on this morning after my morning walk, not wanting to be tearful and at the same time watching the unfolding.
I still had my observer self intact, which is great. Sometimes the observer gets pretty small and the pain gets big. In the midst of this today a question arose – what continues in the crying? The collapse may sometimes feel like an annihilation, but what continues in the crying?
I noticed for me today, it was my breath and a sense of spaciousness as I watched the process of tearful collapse begin. In that there was easing for me, mellowing, gently inhabiting more of the current moment.
If you are someone who ever finds themselves lost or drowning in a difficult emotion, notice your present moment experience through your five senses and ask yourself … what continues here, through this emotion? Keep some of your attention with this and some with the emotion. Watch what happens.
